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Sun porch.

Montgomery, Alabama

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Civil Rights Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Montgomery, Alabama

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Royse City Futuro House

Royse City, Texas

Royse City Futuro House

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Fort Worth Water Gardens

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth Water Gardens

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The artesian bottling factory that now houses the Dr Pepper Museum.

Waco, Texas

Dr Pepper Museum

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Dinosaur Valley State Park

Glen Rose, Texas

Dinosaur Valley State Park

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The Baker Hotel in 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mineral Wells, Texas

The Baker Hotel

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

The Traveling Man

Dallas, Texas

The Traveling Man

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum.

San Antonio, Texas

Buckhorn Saloon and Museum

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Mission San Jose

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Texas Eiffel Tower

Paris, Texas

Texas Eiffel Tower

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Mural by Richard Haas on the outside of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame

Fort Worth, Texas

Cowgirl Hall of Fame

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Texas Woofus

Dallas, Texas

The Texas Woofus

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

Willet Babcock's grave

Paris, Texas

Jesus in Cowboy Boots

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Exchange Street

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth Stockyards

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Main entrance to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. The statue is of George Erath, Texas Ranger and surveyor of the Waco townsite. (Wikimedia Commons)

Waco, Texas

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Women's Museum, Fair Park.

Dallas, Texas

Texas Centennial Art Deco Buildings

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Newby-McMahon Building

Wichita Falls, Texas

Newby-McMahon Building

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

Ace of Clubs House

Texarkana, Texas

Ace of Clubs House

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Animatronic LBJ tells stories and makes jokes

Austin, Texas

Animatronic Lyndon Baines Johnson

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

The Ivy Side

San Antonio, Texas

Rosita's Bridge

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Berlin Bear.

San Antonio, Texas

The Berlin Bear

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

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